I have loaded the driver, but it doesn't work--suspect it's an XP Vista and Win 7 driver. That takes me back to compiling my own driver from an so file, which I can now do as this win machine has 1GB ram, and can take puppy as a dual boot. I will set it up and download those compiler files. Pls give me the necessary instructions on how to use them.

this is the tar-wrap.sh file in txt. it is listed in ~xarchive/wrappers/. It is listed as a driver? i don't understand what does. I don't know where the driver is, nor how to use it.

#! /bin/bash
# tar-wrap.sh - bash tar wrapper for xarchive frontend
# Copyright (C) 2005 Lee Bigelow <ligelowbee@yahoo.com>
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA

# Command line options for prog functions
# open and extract can use tar's cmd line option
# add, new, and remove need to decompress the tar first
# do their thing, than recompress the tar.
OPEN_OPTS="$TAR_COMPRESS_OPT -tvf"
EXTRACT_OPTS="$TAR_COMPRESS_OPT -xf"
ADD_OPTS="-rf"
NEW_OPTS="-cf"
REMOVE_OPTS="--delete -f"

#this method works with filenames that start with a space (evil!)
#split line a time and a space
split($0,linesplit, $5 " ")
#then split the second item (name&link) at the space arrow space
split(linesplit[2], nlsplit, " -> ")

boof,
In response to your PM to me, it's important to note at the outset that your wifi device; USB ID 148F:5370, is supported in all Slacko 5.3.x and 5.4.x versions by the rt2800usb driver. That's a built-in, ready-to-go, true Linux driver.

It's remarkable to me that in a forum thread that spans 28 days, and 21 lengthy posts, there's not a single mention of this.

The rt2800usb driver, unfortunately, has been widely reported as unreliable in earlier Puppy versions, but you should at least try it first, before resorting to the complicated "minefield" of installing third-party drivers ... or worse, of resorting to Windows drivers via ndiswrapper.
Unfortunately, your failed ndiswrapper configuration is possibly now blocking all other drivers from accessing the device, so you must first remove this configuration.
How? I don't know. Someone else needs to step in, or you should do some Googling, yourself.
Worst case, you will need to do a fresh installation.

Once your system is "clean" and free of ndiswrapper, just run the Internet Connection Wizard - and select the "Network Wizard" .... NOT the "Simple Network Wizard".
Don't overthink the configuration - let Puppy auto-detect your device and accept whatever driver Puppy loads (it will be the rt2800usb driver).
Then you need to configure your wifi settings ...

If the rt2800usb driver fails to detect any wifi access points, then it's probably failing, and then we can move on to compile the proprietary Ralink RT5370 driver ... but that's for later.

boof wrote:

now I have to convince my Nokia C3-00 to connect the internet into it. I do find the lack of user control very frustrating, as so much requires special settings and knowledge I don't have. I don't know what the name of my local network is, as I don't think I've seen it yet.

This lack of understanding may be part of your problem. Spend some time to learn what a wifi identifier (SSID) is, what forms of encryption are available, and then investigate what your local network's wifi settings are.

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